It is quarried in the city of carrara in the province of massa and carrara in the lunigiana the northernmost tip of modern day tuscany italy.
Marble di carrara.
It was fun to ride around in the land rover.
In addition to the marble quarries the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a museum of statuary and antiquities and a yearly marble technology fair.
Marble caves of carrara diferents caves located in this well known city not so far from pisa in italy.
They took us to several different stopping points and we saw different types of quarries.
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Carrara marble is a type of white or blue grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor.
With our skilled craftsmanship accompanied by state of the art technology we transform what is raw and unusable of the nature into an elegant masterpiece.
Private tour in carrara marble quarries with 4x4 vehicles the quarry was absolutely amazing to see.
Cantera di colonata a real cave at free air where you can see where the marble stones are.
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We came here to visit any of the caves and we could enter in two of them.
Tre di marmi tre di marmi is a series of full body porcelain tile with the realistic look of the world s most popular white marble.
Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome.
The pantheon and trajan s column in rome are constructed of it and many sculptures of the renaissance were carved from it.
Carrara and the marble civilization the ancient romans discovered 2 000 years ago the presence of this white and shiny stone in the mountains we now call the apuan alps.
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Statuario carrara and argenta.
Carrara marble tour è lieta di offrirvi una fantastica escursione in jeep 4 4 nel bacino più spettacolare della alpi apuane alle scoperta dei marmi pregiati di carrara e della continua sfida tra l uomo e la montagna al fine di realizzare famosi e pregiati decori là dove michelangelo trovò materia prima per le opere più importanti al mondo.
Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains.
The marina di carrara immediately to the southwest is a beach resort on the ligurian sea with port facilities for handling marble.